Content

• Steps
• What do you need

Country songs are usually very simple in content. You just need to describe your feelings. Are you happy, sad, angry, or are you scared to death of something? Record it, just remember to put it to music. So much for a country song.

Steps

1. 1 Almost any country song is built around a "hook", a phrase that is repeated several times in a song and is easily remembered, for example, "friends in bad places". The hook comes at the very beginning of the song, most often in the chorus, and then repeats several times. Hooks are often a game of famous phrases, as in the case of "friends in low places" (the same phrase usually means low places), or the apparent contradiction "I am this life." When you hear one of the most common phrases, roll it around in your head, it is likely that a good hook will come out of it.An example of such a shifter can be found in the song by Tim McGraw: "The pleasure with you is work" (paraphrased "it's a pleasure to work with you")
2. 2 Listen to songs and note their structure. Print out the texts or rewrite them by hand - this will help you get a good understanding of how they are structured. Gradually, you will begin to identify patterns and techniques and learn how to use them in your essays.
3. 3 Start with a simple chord progression and overlay the lyrics over it. If you do not play musical instruments and do not have any musical education, turn to what you have and work with it. Lyrics may look great on paper, but they may sound bad in a song, and you will have to edit the lyrics to match the music.
4. 4 Most country songs have a simple structure. Don't be afraid of unusual solutions; many outstanding country songs violate all canons, but remember that simplicity is the hallmark and strength of this style. Basically, the songs are structured as follows: verse-verse-chorus-verse-lose-chorus, but don't follow the tradition if you feel that you have something unusual, but worthwhile. From his song "Cold, Cold Heart" the great Hank Williams threw out the chorus altogether, but inserted four verses instead of the usual three. Willie Nelson's "nutty" is completely atypical from the point of view of harmony.
5. 5 A good song is always a story told, come up with a plot development in your own. Even if it is only a "sketch from life", it should describe what the hero is going through.
6. 6 It is very difficult to avoid the clichés common in country music, but you can say the usual, well-known things in an unusual way; the pain of the loss of love, the thrill of a new love, regret about a wasted life, the joy of a holiday and much more - it depends on you how new it sounds.
7. 7 Use strong verbs and whole, clear images. Make every word work. Many songs contain no more than 100 words, so you understand how much meaning they have to contain.
8. 8 Remember that it is interesting to listen, by the way, as well as to read, about events, dynamic actions. Live images always outperform sensitive phrases. “My truck got into a ditch, my boss fired me today, my wife went to my best friend” - all this creates images in the minds of listeners. Yes, the poems are yours, but the images are created by the audience, so they are remembered, and sometimes they stay with them forever. Imagination has nothing to cling to in the line "I love you, I need you, I want you."
9. 9 When writing, describe experiences and experiences, but not necessarily just your own. The people around you have probably experienced something that could become lyrics to a song. By learning empathy, by learning to put yourself in the position of another person, you will learn to feel what the other felt when, say, a child was born to him, or he lost his parents or a spouse when he broke up with his beloved.
10. 10 Write down whatever comes to mind, whatever comes in handy when writing a song. New articles, films, books - but you never know what can come up in a conversation - everything can give an impetus to writing a song. The story of a friend of mine about how he got caught in a downpour and suddenly realized how homesick he was, once inspired me. Keep a pen and paper handy so you can jot down and accumulate ideas at all times. For example, I organize songs and ideas by completeness. I give them a working title, which may change during the writing. Those that are completed are grouped under number "five", and the rest I mark in descending order. "One" is usually just a couple of lines written, "four" are almost finished songs that need to be worked out a bit.

What do you need

• A skill in playing a musical instrument, knowledge of basic music theory, or a musician with whom you will work.
• Always have paper and pens or pencils with you to take notes whenever you get an idea.
• A rhyme dictionary will help you if you find yourself stumped.
• System for storing ideas of songs and poems.
• It is not necessary, but useful, to have a recording device for recording musical ideas.